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Hello! Welcome to my talk page. Feel free to leave me a message by clicking the "new section" button above. I am an administrator, and I will do my best to help you. I will respond on this page to keep the discussion in one place. I archive when I think this page is getting long, or if all the discussions are old to the point of irrelevance, or after a long absence on my part. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs)

WikiCup 2023 May newsletter

The second round of the 2023 WikiCup has now finished. Contestants needed to have scored 60 points to advance into round 3. Our top five scorers in round 2 all included a featured article among their submissions and each scored over 500 points. They were:

Other notable performances were put in by Sammi Brie, Thebiguglyalien, MyCatIsAChonk, Chicago PCN02WPS, and London AirshipJungleman29.

So far contestants have achieved thirteen featured articles between them, one being a joint effort, and forty-nine good articles. The judges are pleased with the thorough reviews that are being performed, and have hardly had to reject any. As we enter the third round, remember that any content promoted after the end of round 2 but before the start of round 3 can be claimed in round 3. Remember too that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 and Cwmhiraeth. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 08:15, 2 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – May 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (April 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • A request for comment about removing administrative privileges in specified situations is open for feedback.

Technical news

Arbitration

Miscellaneous

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DYK for Adam Bobrow

On 5 May 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Adam Bobrow, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that table tennis commentator Adam Bobrow's nickname "Snakeman" comes from a trick shot called "the snake"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Adam Bobrow. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Adam Bobrow), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

BorgQueen (talk) 00:02, 5 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! Indiana Politics & Government Editathon on Saturday, May 13

Upcoming Indianapolis event - May 13: Indiana Politics & Government 2023

It's been an eventful state legislative session in Indiana, and local elections took place this week, so we have lots to cover! You are invited to The AMP at 16 Tech in Indianapolis for a Politics & Government editathon to improve write articles about local political and government topics of interest and improve information about local officials, candidates, elections, and legislation. Come join us at this fun venue, with free parking and refreshments provided!

11am–4pm The AMP at 16 Tech in Indianapolis, IN.

We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Wikimedians in Indiana User Group

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M.CC.I. redirect

Hi, please can you show me where the evidence is for this term being an abbreviation, as I can't see it? The official abbreviation seems to be MCCJ, if the infobox is anything to go by (and MCCJ is already a DAB with this listed). It's also formatted in a peculiar way which makes it less credible as a redirect. Bungle (talk • contribs) 16:13, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Bungle From the first line of Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus: "(Template:Lang-la)" - that would be abbreviated MCCI. I agree that the formatting (location of dots) is a little odd. However, it is abbreviated like that in our article on Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 16:20, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I disagree with your view on declining the csd on this, to be honest, but even more that it should remain as-is. The organisation does not seem to be typically known by the abbreviation MCCI. Furthermore, and on the same point, we already have a DAB at MCCI (which includes the target article, I assume on the basis of your response), so why should this redirect, which is bizarrely formatted, point to an organisation where the only link seems to be a Latin initialism, instead of the existing DAB? If it were M.C.C.I. then it would not be unreasonable to point this to MCCI instead, as at least in that format it would be useable, but this to me does fall under the "implausible typo or misnomer" criteria. Bungle (talk • contribs) 17:36, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Speedy deletion is only supposed to be used in the most obvious cases. If it is less than obvious, a deletion discussion is the proper forum. In this case redirects for discussion. I suggest you nominate it there. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 17:40, 8 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The Beauty Myth: Revisited

Whoops, looks like we both hit that one at the same time. Sorry about that.

BTW, I saw your initial take was to move it to User:Desiraewiki/The Beauty Myth (i.e., w/o the "Revisited" part of the title). Note that The Beauty Myth and The Beauty Myth: Revisited are two different works. TJRC (talk) 20:17, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I moved it there as that was the original location, in the user's userspace. I was putting it back where they had moved it from. Also, is The Beauty Myth: Revisited a separate work? I'm not finding any indication of it other than a talk Naomi Wolf gave on the 20th anniversary of the publication of The Beauty Myth. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 20:22, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
You know what? Looking more closely, I don't think it really amounts to a new work; If I'm reading it correctly (now) it's seems to be just a republication of the old one with a new introduction. If that's the case, a separate article really wouldn't be warranted at all; a (small) section in the existing article would be sufficient. TJRC (talk) 21:27, 17 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, ONUnicorn. I see that you have restored and userfied the deleted article The Beauty Myth: Revisited, which I had deleted. I happened to discover that by accident, and if I had not done so I would not have been aware that you had done so, as you did not inform me. Neither, as far as I can see from your editing history, did you inform UtherSRG, who had subsequently re-deleted the same article after it was re-created. You may have had excellent reasons for restoring the page, but, as I expect an administrator of several years' standing such as yourself to know, Wikipedia:Administrators#Misuse of administrative tools recommends first undertaking "a brief discussion with the administrator whose action is challenged" before reverting another administrator's action, if there is any chance of disagreement. There is, of course, room for differing opinions as to when reverting another administrator's action is so obvious as to justify doing so without consultation, but when you are overturning the actions of not just one administrator but two, there is ipso facto evidence that your decision is likely to be to some extent controversial, and that consensus may not be in favour of your decision, so I would think that quite exceptionally good reasons would be required for a single administrator to unilaterally overturn the agreed actions of two administrators without consultation. However, even if you feel you have excellent reasons for regarding this as a case where it was justified to overturn an administrative action without consulting the administrators concerned, I am very surprised that you did not at least do the courtesy of informing us of your decision to unilaterally overturn our decisions after having done so. Perhaps you would like to comment. JBW (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@JBW I apologize, I probably should have consulted you. I will note that I was the one who placed the speedy tag you were responding you when you deleted it to begin with. When I placed the tag instead of deleting it myself, I was considering that, given my earlier actions on the article (of moving it back to userspace) and conversations with the user, it was better to tag it and allow someone else to take the action of deleting it. When the user engaged and asked for it restored to userspace, I did not even think about the fact that I was not the one who deleted it. I do apologize for not extending you the courtesy of at least notifying if not consulting you. I just didn't think about the fact that I was not the deleting admin. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 18:21, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
OK, thanks very much for the explanation, which makes what you did much more comprehensible. JBW (talk) 19:23, 19 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Precious anniversary

Precious
Six years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:57, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – June 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (May 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, editors indefinitely site-banned by community consensus will now have all rights, including sysop, removed.
  • As a part of the Wikimedia Foundation's IP Masking project, a new policy has been created that governs the access to temporary account IP addresses. An associated FAQ has been created and individual communities can increase the requirements to view temporary account IP addresses.

Technical news

  • Bot operators and tool maintainers should schedule time in the coming months to test and update their tools for the effects of IP masking. IP masking will not be deployed to any content wiki until at least October 2023 and is unlikely to be deployed to the English Wikipedia until some time in 2024.

Arbitration

  • The arbitration case World War II and the history of Jews in Poland has been closed. The topic area of Polish history during World War II (1933-1945) and the history of Jews in Poland is subject to a "reliable source consensus-required" contentious topic restriction.

Miscellaneous

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New Pages Patrol newsletter June 2023

Hello ONUnicorn,

New Page Review queue April to June 2023

Backlog

Redirect drive: In response to an unusually high redirect backlog, we held a redirect backlog drive in May. The drive completed with 23851 reviews done in total, bringing the redirect backlog to 0 (momentarily). Congratulations to Hey man im josh who led with a staggering 4316 points, followed by Meena and Greyzxq with 2868 and 2546 points respectively. See this page for more details. The redirect queue is steadily rising again and is steadily approaching 4,000. Please continue to help out, even if it's only for a few or even one review a day.

Redirect autopatrol: All administrators without autopatrol have now been added to the redirect autopatrol list. If you see any users who consistently create significant amounts of good quality redirects, consider requesting redirect autopatrol for them here.

WMF work on PageTriage: The WMF Moderator Tools team, consisting of Sam, Jason and Susana, and also some patches from Jon, has been hard at work updating PageTriage. They are focusing their efforts on modernising the extension's code rather than on bug fixes or new features, though some user-facing work will be prioritised. This will help make sure that this extension is not deprecated, and is easier to work on in the future. In the next month or so, we will have an opt-in beta test where new page patrollers can help test the rewrite of Special:NewPagesFeed, to help find bugs. We will post more details at WT:NPPR when we are ready for beta testers.

Articles for Creation (AFC): All new page reviewers are now automatically approved for Articles for Creation draft reviewing (you do not need to apply at WT:AFCP like was required previously). To install the AFC helper script, visit Special:Preferences, visit the Gadgets tab, tick "Yet Another AFC Helper Script", then click "Save". To find drafts to review, visit Special:NewPagesFeed, and at the top left, tick "Articles for Creation". To review a draft, visit a submitted draft, click on the "More" menu, then click "Review (AFCH)". You can also comment on and submit drafts that are unsubmitted using the script.

You can review the AFC workflow at WP:AFCR. It is up to you if you also want to mark your AFC accepts as NPP reviewed (this is allowed but optional, depends if you would like a second set of eyes on your accept). Don't forget that draftspace is optional, so moves of drafts to mainspace (even if they are not ready) should not be reverted, except possibly if there is conflict of interest.

Pro tip: Did you know that visual artists such as painters have their own SNG? The most common part of this "creative professionals" criteria that applies to artists is WP:ARTIST 4b (solo exhibition, not group exhibition, at a major museum) or 4d (being represented within the permanent collections of two museums).

Reminders

You're invited! Wiki Loves Pride in Indianapolis

Upcoming Indianapolis event - June 24, 2023: Wiki Loves Pride Indy

You are invited to join us at Spades Park Branch Library for a Wiki Loves Pride editathon—hosted by the Wikimedians of Indiana User Group with support from the Central Indiana Community Foundation. Together, new and experienced Wikipedia editors will collaboratively improve articles on LGBTQ+ topics, individuals, organizations, and legislation in Indiana.

2 pm to 5 pm at the Spades Park Branch of The Indianapolis Public Library.

We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Wikimedians of Indiana User Group

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The Core Contest winners announced

The winners of the 2023 The Core Contest are announced 🎉. We had an amazing set of improvements this year, and the judges (Femke, Aza24 and Casliber) would like to thank everybody who joined and congratulate the winners.

  • First place goes to Buidhe for improving The Holocaust; very core, highly relevant; their work on bringing geographical balance to the article puts the topic in a whole different light. We also commend improvements to sourcing and prose
  • A close second place goes to Phlsph7 for improving Education from an unstructured jumble into a well-sourced piece of instruction
  • Third prize goes to Johnbod for improving Donatello, a near five-fold expansion with great sourcing and fantastic imagery
  • A tie for fourth place goes to Thebiguglyalien for improving Crime, for a strong improvement in sourcing
  • A tie for fifth place goes to Sammielh for International law, improved by converting contextless listicles into a proper sourced prose

If you wish to start or stop receiving news about The Core Contest, please add or remove yourself from the delivery list. —Femke 🐦 (talk) 20:07, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

New pages patrol needs your help!

New pages awaiting review as of June 30th, 2023.

Hello ONUnicorn,

The New Page Patrol team is sending you this impromptu message to inform you of a steeply rising backlog of articles needing review. If you have any extra time to spare, please consider reviewing one or two articles each day to help lower the backlog. You can start reviewing by visiting Special:NewPagesFeed. Thank you very much for your help.

Reminders:

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Administrators' newsletter – July 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (June 2023).

Administrator changes

added Novem Linguae
removed

Bureaucrat changes

removed MBisanz

Guideline and policy news

Technical news

Arbitration

  • Two arbitration cases are currently open. Proposed decisions are expected 5 July 2023 for the Scottywong case and 9 July 2023 for the AlisonW case.
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WikiCup 2023 July newsletter

The third round of the 2023 WikiCup has come to an end. The 16 users who made it to the fourth round had at least 175 points. Our top scorers in round 3 were:

Contestants achieved 11 featured articles, 2 featured lists, 47 good articles, 72 featured or good article reviews, over 100 DYKs and 40 ITN appearances. As always, any content promoted after the end of round 3 but before the start of round 4 can be claimed in round 4. Please also remember that you must claim your points within 14 days of "earning" them. When doing GARs, please make sure that you check that all the GA criteria are fully met. Please also remember that all submissions must meet core Wikipedia policies, regardless of the review process.

If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article nominations, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed (remember to remove your listing when no longer required). Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) and Cwmhiraeth (talk). MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 15:18, 8 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

You're invited! Indiana State Fair Wiknic on Sunday, July 30

Upcoming Indianapolis event - July 30, 2023: Indiana State Fair Wiknic

We are partnering with the Indiana State Fair to offer FREE tickets to the fair for Wikipedians! We will be meeting on July 30th at 10am to pass out tickets and have a quick info session before we attend the fair (feel free to branch off and share your accomplishments on the Meetup page later!) Detailed instructions on how the day will go is available on the Meetup page! We hope you'll join us to edit about things related to fair (historic buildings, foods, animals, activities, and the fair itself).

All levels of experience are welcome! Please RSVP so we know who is coming. We hope you'll join us!

10 am to ? at the Indiana State Fairgrounds; meet at the Deaf School Gateway

We hope to see you there! Sincerely, Wikimedians of Indiana User Group

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Hey there! I know you've registered your regrets on this and a few other past events. We'd definitely love to have you some time! In any case, as I wrote on the event page, we've been gifted a bunch of free fair tickets to distribute to Wikipedians. Even if you can't make it at the time we scheduled the event, let me know if you'd still like to use a free ticket, and maybe you can participate in the event asynchronously, if you can upload some photos or do other edits (or even a new article). I already have the tickets in my possession, so I'd be happy to find a way to get them to you! Dominic·t 18:58, 25 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – August 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (July 2023).

Administrator changes

added Firefangledfeathers
removed

Interface administrator changes

added Novem Linguae

Technical news

Arbitration

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"The Fortress Unvanquishable, Save for Sacnoth"

I just got a notification that the DYK has been published. Thank you for motivating me to submit it! CohenTheBohemian (talk) 13:27, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations! I'm glad it was published. :) ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 15:04, 15 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Administrators' newsletter – September 2023

News and updates for administrators from the past month (August 2023).

Guideline and policy news

  • Following an RfC, TFAs will be automatically semi-protected the day before it is on the main page and through the day after.
  • A discussion at WP:VPP about revision deletion and oversight for dead names found that [s]ysops can choose to use revdel if, in their view, it's the right tool for this situation, and they need not default to oversight. But oversight could well be right where there's a particularly high risk to the person. Use your judgment.

Technical news

Arbitration

  • The SmallCat dispute case has closed. As part of the final decision, editors participating in XfD have been reminded to be careful about forming local consensus which may or may not reflect the broader community consensus. Regular closers of XfD forums were also encouraged to note when broader community discussion, or changes to policies and guidelines, would be helpful.

Miscellaneous

  • Tech tip: The "Browse history interactively" banner shown at the top of Special:Diff can be used to easily look through a history, assemble composite diffs, or find out what archive something wound up in.
Sent by MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

WikiCup 2023 September newsletter

The fourth round of the competition has finished, with anyone scoring less than 673 points being eliminated. It was a high scoring round with all but one of the contestants who progressed to the final having achieved an FA during the round. The highest scorers were

  • New York (state) Epicgenius, with 2173 points topping the scores, gained mainly from a featured article, 38 good articles and 9 DYKs. He was followed by
  • Sammi Brie, with 1575 points, gained mainly from a featured article, 28 good articles and 50 good article reviews. Close behind was
  • Thebiguglyalien, with 1535 points mainly gained from a featured article, 15 good articles, 26 good article reviews and lots of bonus points.

Between them during round 4, contestants achieved 12 featured articles, 3 featured lists, 3 featured pictures, 126 good articles, 46 DYK entries, 14 ITN entries, 67 featured article candidate reviews and 147 good article reviews. Congratulations to our eight finalists and all who participated! It was a generally high-scoring and productive round and I think we can expect a highly competitive finish to the competition.

Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 4 but before the start of round 5 can be claimed in round 5. Remember too that you must claim your points within 10 days of "earning" them and within 24 hours of the end of the final. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. It would be helpful if this list could be cleared of any items no longer relevant. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, please do your bit to keep down the review backlogs! Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send.

I will be standing down as a judge after the end of the contest. I think the Cup encourages productive editors to improve their contributions to Wikipedia and I hope that someone else will step up to take over the running of the Cup. Sturmvogel 66 (talk), and Cwmhiraeth (talk)

New page patrol October 2023 Backlog drive

New Page Patrol | October 2023 Backlog Drive
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MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 09:13, 9 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Please help adding the Chiragh Baloch article

Hello dear ONUnicorn!

Chiragh Baloch is one of famous baloch actors who worked in this area for a long time. I wanted to add an article in name of Chiragh Baloch, but it semes, it protected from creation. If passible please create this article using this information, thanks in advance. Ibrahim khashrowdi (talk) 17:46, 13 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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